Unfortunately, the genocide on the Armenian Christians was by no means the first genocide that has taken place in mainland Europe by religious people and it wasn’t the last either. Genocides on religious (and non-religious) grounds have been occurring throughout human history. Most members of the Nazi elite force SS were in fact Christians, mainly Lutheran Christians. However, the Nazi leadership based much of its ideology of the ‘Uebermensch’ on the thoughts of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche who was an atheist (but definitely not a racist!).